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Page 117
... hunters have ever been great liars , and except as fuel for nostalgia , their ex- ploits make repetitious reading , clogged as they are with stupefying lists of the carcasses left be- hind and encounters with death so constant as to ...
... hunters have ever been great liars , and except as fuel for nostalgia , their ex- ploits make repetitious reading , clogged as they are with stupefying lists of the carcasses left be- hind and encounters with death so constant as to ...
Page 161
... hunters , with a few nomadic Orma Boran and Ariangulo or " Waliangulu " have most of this hostile country to themselves . Like the Kamba , the Ariangulo , a little - known tribe of the nyika that speaks an eastern Hamitic tongue like ...
... hunters , with a few nomadic Orma Boran and Ariangulo or " Waliangulu " have most of this hostile country to themselves . Like the Kamba , the Ariangulo , a little - known tribe of the nyika that speaks an eastern Hamitic tongue like ...
Page 224
... hunters , this small size , like the long legs of the nomadic herdsmen , was a phenomenon of natu- ral selection . In the case of the well - fed Hadza , it would be hard to argue that small size is the con- sequence of life in a hostile ...
... hunters , this small size , like the long legs of the nomadic herdsmen , was a phenomenon of natu- ral selection . In the case of the well - fed Hadza , it would be hard to argue that small size is the con- sequence of life in a hostile ...
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